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nonbinaryezrabridger · 6 months

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thanks to @judgeverse for tagging me!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

177 total! I'm still astonished at that amount tbh

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

480,869

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Currently: Sg1, sga, and sgu mainly. Star trek but not new trek. Star wars rebels. Mad max, mainly fury road. Pacific rim occasionally. The thing 1982. I've written a ton more fandoms than that but I'm not active in those routinely

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

My highest is an old x men fic at 167 kudos. Only one of my top five is a fandom I'm still in, and that's stargate atlantis at 166.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

As much as possible. Sometimes I'm simply too drained by real life to answer every comment, but I try to answer all of them if I can. I feel it's important to let my readers know the comments really do impact me, they're really important to keep me motivated and I want other fans to know that. There's been times a single comment convinced me to finish a fic, or write a whole new concept.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

definitely this she ra fic, posted while the show was coming out, where scorpia tries to reach out to catra, her attempt to help is rejected, and she lets herself be willingly consumed by the world ending magic. Most of my angst always has a happy ending, so this one is perhaps my only 100% angsty fic

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Probably this the thing 1982 fic, where I take characters from a horror movie where they all die horribly, and instead have them live a happy gay domestic life with no alien monster.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

one fic from a fandom I shall not name got so much hate I deleted it for my own health. Otherwise, I got one angry comment on a she ra fic once

9. Do you write smut? If so what kind?

no, i've dabbled in it once or twice, but don't like it much. I doubt i'd ever write anything more explicit than suggestive content or sex based jokes

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I wrote a fic with the get down characters in the mad max universe, but without any crossover of mad max characters. It's just the get down characters in the universe. that's definitely not my most popular fic, but I enjoyed writing it nonetheless

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

nope, but the idea scares me. fortunately I like weird things no one else does, so I think the chances of someone stealing my content is low

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

yes! it was a great experience, would totally do it again as long as I was close with the other person cowriting

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

My top relationships are both from the get down, my first being thizzee. However, my top ship for a fandom that isn't dead is teal'c/daniel/sam from stargate sg1

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

pretty much all my unfinished get down fanfics. I love them all and want to finish them, but it's painful to think about the show with the cancellation and how it canonically ended, and also I don't know if anyone would even read them, so very low priority at this point

16. What are your writing strengths?

internal monologue of characters

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

anything sexy or overly romantic. Kissing is really hard for me

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I'm not comfortable with messing it up. I deleted a very popular fic of mine because I wasn't happy with the writing of the asl in it. I'm still working on editing it to be better and still hope to post it and finish it this time. However, I'd rather not write something at all than portray it in a harmful way. If it's something I can research and do well, I'll do that, but I feel some things are just not for me to write about and that's fine

19. First fandom you wrote for?

First posted was the lord of the rings movies. First ever written was probably teen titans. Funnily enough, neither of those are still posted and I've never written for those fandoms since. Of my actual posted work, my first fandom was dc's legends of tomorrow, which I no longer write for either, but I left the fics up

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

I couldn't choose just one.

So, of my longest fics:

This sga fic, with team sheppard as a queerplatonic quartet raising torren together. They get pulled into an alternate universe and have to save the world (again)

Of my shortest fics:

This space sweepers fic about bub's trans identity. Ends happily with her successful transition

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chal-lelerc · 4 years

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ok so like. here’s my harry potter house thing. i’m ngl i tried to do this but then i deleted it bc it was getting too long and i didn’t have the attention span but. it kept sticking in my brain so i decided to pick it back up and as such, i’ve lost the original post but it was a quarantine activity (sort drivers into houses, assign quidditch positions, explain) posted by @verstappened. houses done first, then positions, then explanations for both. i tried to make feasible teams, i.e making sure there arent too many of a single position per house, so this really screwed some of the sorting but oh well.

i did the houses first, then positions, then explanations in that order for the most part.

5/13/20: the sorting was mostly done before i heard all the differing opinions (of which there were many!)

5/19/20: alright so this is literally like 2 months old but i’ve just finished it lolol

Lewis Hamilton:

Slytherin: THE GLORY MAN. the aloof kind of superiority, confidence, is top dog, he’s simply the pinnacle of it all. kind of lethal and doesn’t do the whole ‘looking up to others’ things (outwardly, but he seems very soft on the inside tbh). very majestic and is almost a gryffindor, the kind of slytherin that Merlin is. hard-working, got here from incredibly humble beginnings, which kind of stands out from the rest, but he’s clearly now at the top level of society. still very protective of Others. scarily ambitious. Was originally a gryffindor but I wanted the brits to be in different houses for their quidditch positions to work. Could honestly go either way though.

Seeker: more glory. periodt. he stays winning and scoring the most points. clutch-man. Speedy boy, kind of in a different world than everyone else when competing (he’s always at the front lifetimes away from everyone else lmao. playing a diff game.)

Valtteri Bottas:

Hufflepuff: HE SEEMS. LIKE. A. BIG. CHILD. always relegated and brushed off but is literally God-Tier and no one can convince me otherwise. i consider him to be rather reliable (reflecting only the 2019 season at least lmao). a bit of a vindictive streak bc he knows what he’s Capable Of even when others underestimate him. has a very bright smile.

Beater: have u seen him. he’s a big boy even though he’s 5′8 and only an inch taller than lando norris he seems bigger than he is ok

Charles Leclerc:

Slytherin: this bitch. what a snake. hiss hiss.

Chaser: he wants what lewis hamilton has but chose the wrong position. still a star in his own right. pride and joy of his house, will be at the lead of every formation play unless told otherwise by his head of house, to which he will brood and complain ab but comply in the end bc he wants Team Success and loyalty to his Family. scores the most points on the team and people act like he carries even though he literally has a partner(s).

ok but fr my gut said charles is a slytherin (do i really need to explain why? very critical, doesn’t accept inferiority, somehow succeeds. just a feeling his brain seems to fit motorsport politics well), but i was seriously contemplating whether he’d be a gryffindor to max’s slytherin instead. but then i saw someone mention the whole lion schtick and i was like for all of max’s brattiness he is Gryffindor so sharl is snake. sorry don’t make the rules just follow them.

further edit: this was written before he started streaming (this is how old this draft is) and can u believe him he’s the epitome of the “not all slytherins r evil wenches” idea

Sebastian Vettel:

Ravenclaw: idk for all of Seb’s goofiness he just seems cerebral to me. Seems to know mildly irrelevant facts and is really quite smart however is hopeless in the modern age. Kind of that wise old(er he’s not that old) man knowledge. I’d trust him to give me all the life advice I need but also to write a 10 page essay on the nuances of the effect of emotion on verbal language (which we all know he is very experienced with).

Keeper: it’s the protective Dad Power.

Max Verstappen:

Gryffindor: WAS REALLY GONNA PUT HIM IN SLYTHERIN BC HE’S A NASTY LIL SHIT. TOTAL BRAT. GIVES FUCK ALL WHAT OTHERS SAY. BUT HE IS LION AND LION IS HE SO GRYFFINDOR IT IS. also just bc he needs to oppose sharl in every way possible it’s called Poetic Cinema. also his driving style is clearly the bravery and confidence to the point of recklessness that is prevalent among gryffindors.

Chaser: again, he must oppose Charles. so, not a seeker although he’s clearly singularly the most prized competitor. just like Charles, pride and joy of house, their star chaser. the comparisons never end. the competition never ends. the fighting never ends. one of the most interesting and dynamic performers to watch, is predictable in that he’s not predictable except that he will always be aggro to the max. will always be in trouble for getting rough bc that’s Not His Job but that’s just the gryffindor disregard for rules. master point scorer.

Alex Albon:

Gryffindor: was really a toss up btwn this and Hufflepuff but the ultimate deciding factor was the fact that I wanted all the British Boys to be seekers. he really just sticks it out as max’s teammate like a real one (nothing against max, everything against Helmet Merco) for the good of the team, still is sweet with max anyway. fitting that they’re in the same house too.

Seeker: he’s not the small boy that lando and lewis are but he is (thai/)British. very special boy (big ups on the promotion even tho it was Sad Times for Pear) deserves very special job. also he has a hot girlfriend (alex albon who i only know lily he’s boy toy) idk how that’s relevant but it seems fitting.

Carlos Sainz:

Ravenclaw: bc he’s a spaniard but is still better at english than Lando (i think everyone is tbh). Seems to be a quiet type of smart, sensible, but perhaps this is just the consequence of being compared to Lanno at all times LMAO (no hate all love bby Lannd). would be the type of ravenclaw to follow his friends on absolutely idiotic ventures but would step in to prevent near death or likely-legal-problem causing actions (and only then; otherwise it’s every man for themselves and everyone is free to make a fool of themselves and break some laws. carlos may dabble in such practices.)

Chaser: seems to be a go-getter, not going for points doesn’t even cross his mind. will always be the one driving up the pitch, the strategist of sorts bc he seems big(ger) brain (than lando lololol).

Edit: I wrote this part ab him long ago but this entire section of this post is now irrelevant and canceled.

Lando Norris:

Hufflepuff: you all know why. zero explanation needed. like, none.

also has a bit of an aggressive streak which tends to catch ppl off guard. is not afraid to confront u (hello pageNO) and at times defies the hufflepuff stereotype of being perpetually happy go-lucky (he has his bad days!). but when with His True Crew he is absolutely a hufflepuff ball of energy.

Seeker: small and speedy. energetic to the max. small. quirky and different from the rest, so he gets the special job. small. everyone would kill to protect him. small.

Daniel Ricciardo:

Gryffindor: AW I DIDN’T EVEN REALIZE THAT I PUT HIM AND MAX TOGETHER. LOOK I EVEN MADE THEM BOTH CHASERS. AH HOW BIGBRAIN MY MIND IS. everything ab dan is gold. golden skin, the colors in redbull and renault, his smile, just the vibes. he’s just got the enthusiasm and charisma and this intensity of a gryffindor. super aggressive, his late breaking (from his rbr at least) is legendary and maddening with how he pulls it off. is almost a hufflepuff but the gut said no.

Chaser: is Max’s teammate. so yeah. was obviously the star until younger max came to the show. a bit lost in limbo bc of it but they still work well together.

literally want to make him a hufflepuff so. bad. but i couldn’t split up maxiel. also his vibe is just different from other ‘puffs like stroll so.

Esteban Ocon:

Slytherin: ask max.

Chaser: being characterized off of their relationship with max seems to be a theme here. will go head to head with max w/ absolutely zero shits given. talented, but the rivalry with max is entirely secondary to charles imho. still yet to show his full potential but is still quietly a thorn in max’s side. many are interested to see what he is able to do in the immediate future.

Pierre Gasly:

Hufflepuff: GUYS HE WANTS TO OWN A PANDA

Chaser: constantly trying to prove himself and score big boy points. had a stint as seeker until lando came along. did not do as well as ppl had hoped, returned to chaser and proceeded to crush it from there. praticed a lot with charles as children (the friendship dynamic w/ their houses was definitely unforseen but is amazing).

Daniil Kvyat:

Hufflepuff: really wanted to make him a slytherin but the quidditch positions didn’t work out. firmly believe this works though. more of the rough and tumble type, definitely the kind that will sock u in the nose if u write off hufflepuffs as a joke. could honestly probably be a gryffindor too with how unapologetically aggressive he can be in the name of His Beliefs. gives me big dumb himbo vibes now that i think ab it tbh which is mostly the justification here. also he has a child omg.

Chaser: but the one that’s always headbutting bludgers out of the air (torpedo bitches). also had a stint as seeker before but it Was Not His Thing. he’d much rather be chasing and throwing things than seeking things. also he’s pierre’s mate :,) would’ve been a beater but romain and valtteri will not be anything else so daniil took the boot whoops.

Sergio Perez:

Slytherin: it’s just the vibe. knows his weaknesses and is able to make up for it with his confidence and talent in his strengths. very ambitious, plays the right cards at the right times to get the right results. something ab him puts me on edge, but like in a good way; i feel like there’s always a trump card up his sleeve, like when he gets to q3 out of fucking nowhere in a racing point.

Keeper: he gives me the same vibes as seb idk what it is. very dependable, backbone of his team.

Lance Stroll:

Hufflepuff: guys have u seen the guy. he’s just here to have a good time. may seem a bit airheaded at times but he means well 99% of the time. untapped potential. seems like a no thoughts head empty canadian hockey boy (and every one of these types is a hufflepuff don’t fight it); may or may not be the only accurate description of him.

Chaser: he’s just trying his best out here. i

KEEPER?: SO I DID A QUICK GOOGLE AND HE USED TO BE A HOCKEY

GOALIE?????

so scratch my initial thoughts (tbh i didn’t really know where to put him and i originally had romain as keeper but that’s an issue to fix later on now) BECAUSE LANCE STROLL IS A keeper GOALIE AND NO ONE CAN REFUTE THIS. ABSOLUTELY NO HUMAN OF THIS EARTH. WHAT GLORIOUS INFORMATION TO STUMBLE ACROSS.

Kimi Raikkonen:

Slytherin: guys i really don’t have an in depth analysis of this but i don’t think iceman needs one.

Beater: see above^. y’all must get the vibe.

tbh could also be a keeper tho similar energies to seb and checo, but honestly his no fucks given attitude is ultimately what swayed me

Antonio Giovinazzi:

Gryffindor: he just has that majestic quality (that could also fit a slytherin but i only see red when i see antonio). look at that lion’s mane. also he’s one of kimi’s to paddock friends? seems fitting that he’s a gryffindor to kimi’s slytherin.

Chaser: plays second fiddle to the duo that is max and daniel, often regulated to vibing on the side. but he’s there and he’s important and he has potential (i’ve been seeing ppl talking ab a ferrari move and i’m positively shaken). [edit: again, this post is old.]

im sorry its glaringly obvious idk much about him asdfjasldkd

Kevin Magnussen:

Slytherin: guys lots of these are just self explanatory sorry if i seem like im taking the cheap way out but it’s fact. brundle and crofty call him a great white shark for crying out loud.

Beater: unapologetically chaotic. lurking around the edges making people feel hunted. spends more time playing baseball in the middle of the matches than quidditch and sometimes it backfires but it’s good fun and it sometimes works.

Romain Grosjean:

Hufflepuff: y’all he’s such dad energy and he likes to cook. gets written off a lot but he actually cares (he’s a part of the grand prix drivers assoc.!). he seems so wholesome and he spends time with his kids and their school work when he can do u feel those water drops yeah those r my tears.

Beater: i really wanted to make him a slytherin beater to make him teammates with k-mag but he’s just. not a slytherin. but i kept the beater part. spends the majority of the hufflepuff v. slytherin matches sending bludgers kevin’s way even when he doesn’t mean to. it’s always reciprocated.

George Russell:

Ravenclaw: I’VE SAID IT BEFORE AND I’LL SAY IT AGAIN THIS KID. is so marvelously well spoken and he just has such a simple yet effective way with words. he knows what’s reasonable to expect but never fails to expect the most that he can given his circumstances. again, mentioned this before but a lot of it is his accent. the glottal stop is a historically stereotypically rural (i.e. “uneducated”) thing but I’m American and I Don’t Listen to the Rules, so the accent just makes him seem so sophisticated to me especially when he’s saying things like “horriiiiiiiific” and presenting his hefty powerpoints.

Seeker: my British Boys Are Seekers headcanon continues. definitely a Golden Boy of the team kind of guy (hello tragic dumpsterfire that is williams :/ ).

Nicholas Latifi:

Hufflepuff: same boat as lance. his twitch streams are so wholesome he’s just chilling man. twitter made me write him off as daft and unnecessary at first but like fuck twitter i’m all here for ninky latvia now.

Chaser: lowkey gives me keeper vibes as well? the sensible, level-headedness. but obvs that’s lance so chaser it is. still the level-headedness that helps him hold down the fort btwn pierre and daniil who can tend to get a bit imaginative, and also the energies of them + lando.

5/19/20: so it’s quite clear to me that i grew tired of brain functions the more time i took on this and the later ones are a bit lacking and for that i’m very sorry. that being said i’m still happy to see this finished bc the idea was VERY exciting for me.

#max verstappen #charles leclerc #daniel ricciardo #lando norris #f1 #formula one #f1 grid #harry potter grid #finally done folks lordt #was anyone waiting for this idk but it's here #it's also glaringly obvious who i know less about but that too is something that one must excuse #whoops

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trippin-over-my-fandoms · 4 years

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( My Fallout 4 Builds ) Part 1 : Jack Daniels

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behind the character: Jackson, or simply Jack, was my very first Fallout 4 play through. His name was originally going to be Jack Wilson, after a different original character of mine, but the autofill suggestion on my XBOX forced my hand. Thus the running joke of naming the fallout characters after liquor. It was by total accident that he ended up resembling Tom Ellis but once I saw it it stuck. I knew absolutely nothing going into fallout when I first played other than that my dad said since I liked skyrim I’d like fallout. He was wrong. I loved fallout.

But since I didn’t know anything about how this game worked, I kinda fucked up Jack’s SPECIAL. I thought you had to max out the bases to be able to get the perks. Boy was I wrong. I haven’t played with him in a bit so I don’t remember exactly which ones are maxed out other than Strength and Endurance. Everything is at least at an 8 however and he’s a level 44.

backstory, personality, motives: Jack was brought up on a farm as the youngest of five. His sibling were all considerably older than him and, though he was the baby, it seemed not many in his family had time for him other than his grandfather who he looked up to. Jack joined the military because of his grandfather who pretty much raised him to be the man he became. He meant so much to Jack that he’d go on to name his own son after him.

Jack does his best to be the peacemaker, especially as he tries to navigate the hostile commonwealth. If he can’t talk others out of a hostile situation he’s quick into action and takes whatever shot necessary, being no stranger to a fight. He’s kind and lighthearted, with a bit of a little kid spirit in him. He tries to see the best in people before having to accept that maybe there is no best in them.

His motive is peace. War looks different in the new world but it’s still war, even if it’s not on such a grand scale. Jack goes for the gray area hoping for common ground on both sides so everyone can survive the harsh world united. After destroying the institute and becoming a hero it made it a little easier because people looked up to him and that meant he could convince them to work together.

faction, weapons, armor: I sided with the railroad for this play through. I didn’t really know what I was doing, nor did I know exactly what they were at first but I was like “hey well technically they recruited me first so” and that was also before I knew you could side fully with the Minutemen to take out the Institute but whatever. I did immensely enjoy it, however. I got to play a double agent in the institute which was fun because I got to do quite a few quests. I’ll be honest and admit that I did look up some stuff because I didn’t want to accidentally side with the Institute.

Earlier on in the game I had a gun with a bayonet on it that I stabbed people with because I was a shit shot. I got teased a lot by my family but jokes on them because I leveled up pretty quickly because the bash moves gave me quite a bit of XP (although maybe it’s because I played on easy?). It shot .308 rounds but wasn’t automatic so I only used it to snipe. I did eventually get a good, semi-automatic gun that shot .45s and had a bayonet. I switch between that and the deathclaw gauntlet.

As for armor, well- early on I did the typical vault suit with raider armor layered on. I also put a fedora and sunglasses on him for pretty much all of the game. There was also the trench-coat phase for a bit too. For a bit I wore the courser armor but upgraded/downgraded to the Silver Shroud costume. It offered better protection but not so much RAD resistance. Oh well.

love interest: I traveled mainly with Piper for majority of my game. I only just recently started traveling with Hancock after playing MacCready’s questline. I haven’t done any of the flirt options yet because, well... if Jack has one thing in common with me it’s that he was 100% always nervous to shoot his shot. He’ll get there though. For game purposes I blamed it on that Nora was the only girl Jack had ever been with and how he even landed her is a mystery.

in game theme song: his in game theme song is The Wanderer by Dion. It doesn’t really describe him at all in terms of lyrics other than it being his Railroad code name. It just has his vibe. Actually, a lot of the album is his vibe and if I could make a fallout movie or series of Jack the soundtrack would have most of that album.

pop culture theme song: at the moment he doesn’t have one. I’m still looking for one.

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ulezak · 7 years

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Putiferio (poltergeist serenade) - chapter 1 (don’t feed the animals)

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a satanic (aural) comedy courageously mixed/blended & recorded live by maux (aka mauxuam) during the 20/21/22/23 august 2017 at the Ormus Lounge in Frank Zappa Straße, Marzahn.DDR/Berlin.EU. calling the ghosts: Daevid Allen / Negativeland / Alan Vega / Leonard Cohen / Prince / Lucio Battisti / Fabrizio De Andrè / Frank Zappa / Kim Fowley / Snakefinger / Muslimgauze juiced, cut & baked with trust at Sandokan Bay studio incidentally dislocated in Frank Zappa Straße Marzahn.DDR on the early days of september 2017 during the full moon phase .. while desperatly skint sinking too close to the bone .. dedicated to my ghost … forever longing for the Pearl of Labuan.

total play time: 6 hours 13 minutes 34 seconds

TRACKsLISTing: 001 - Johanna M. Beyer : Music Of The Spheres [An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music vol.2 - 1938] 002 - Vincente Price : How To See Ghosts or Surely Bring Them To You [A Hornbook For Witches, Stories and Poems For Halloween - Caedmon Rec. 1976 - LA]003 - Sun Ra : There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You of) [Lanquidity - 1978]004 - Franco Battiato : Il Silenzio del Rumore [Pollution - 1972 - Sicilia]005 - Lucio Battisti : La Collina dei Ciliegi [Il Nostro Caro Angelo - 1973 - Roma]006 - Mono Pause : Come Into The Future [America The Beautiful - Reccomended Rec 1994]007 - Throbbing Gristle : Convincing People [20 Jazz Funk Greats - Industrial Rec. 1979 - London]008 - The Residents : We Are An Happy Family [Commercial Album - Ralph Rec. 1980 - SF]008 - Vampire Rodents : Bosch Erotique [America The Beautiful - Reccomended Rec 1994]010 - Kim Fowley : 1983 - Don't Feed The Animals [Snake Document Masquerade - Island Rec. 1979]011 - Kevin Ayers : Song From The Bottom Of A Well [Whatevershebringswesing - 1974 - UK]012 - Van Der Graaf Generator : Necromancer [The Aerosol Grey Machine - 1969 - London]013 - W. Biggers : Underdog [Television's Greatest Hits vol.2: More From The 50’s & 60'Ss - ? - Hollywood]014 - Wiseblood : Grease Nipples [PTTM - 1991 - NY]015 - The Swingle Singers : Country Dances [The Swingle Singers - Stax Rec. 1973 - Chicago]016 - The Flying Lizards : Mandelay Song [The Flying Lizards - Virgin Rec. 1979 - London]017 - Tuxedomoon : Ninotchka [Divine - Crammed Rec 1982 - SF/Bruxelles]018 - Tomita : Golliwog's Cakewalk [The Newest Sound of Debussy: Snowflakes Are Dancing - 1974 - Japan]019 - Gershon Kingsley & Leonid Hambro : Summertime [Switched-On Gershwin - 1970 - France]020 - The Pointer Sisters : That's How I Feel [The Pointer Sisters - 1973 - ]021 - Frank Zappa : Let Me Take You To The Beach [Studio Tan - 1978]022 - Laibach : Take Me To Heaven [We Come In Peace - Mute Rec 2012 - Lubjana]023 - Bud Tutmarc : My Beautiful King of Kings [Sacred Hawaiian Melodies - ? - Hawaii]024 - Kostas Bezos Hawaiian Orchestra : Ta Aspra Sta Vouna / The White Bird In The Mountains [1930 - Rembetika - Greece/Hawaii]025 - Wilmoth Houdini : Blow Wind Blow [I Dont Feel At Home In This World Anymore 1927—1948 - ?]026 - Leader Cleveland : Babylon Is Falling Down [God Give Me Light 1927-1931 - Missisipi]027 - John Lurie & Tom Waits : World of Adventure [Fishing With John - 1998]028 - Max Steiner : King Kong March [King Kong OST - 1933 - Hollywood]029 - Material feat. Killah Priest : Temple of The Mental [Intonarumori - Axiom 1999 - NY]030 - Lesego Rampolokeng & The Kalahari Surfers : End Beginnings [End Beginnnings - Reccomended Rec 1993 - Soweto]031 - Allen Ginsberg & Hal Wilner : Ode To Failure [The Lion For Real - ? ]032 - Bee Gees : Lay It On Me [Mythology - ? ]033 - Iceberg Slim : Broadway Sam [Reflections - 1994]034 - Douglas Adams : Life Is Terribly Unfair [The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - BBC ? - London]035 - Snakefinger : There Is No Justice In Life [Night of Desirable Objects - Ralph Rec. 1992 - SF]036 - VVV (aka Alan Vega) : Resurrection River [Resurrection River - ? - NY]037 - Tino Contreras : Santo [Astonishing Stuff! - 1966]038 - Zelwer : Evviva l'amore [The Gods Are Angry / Made to Measure vol.36 - Crammed Discs ? - Bruxelles]039 - Tin Hat Trio : Width of The World [Helium - 2000]040 - Lindsay Cooper : Stitch Goes The Needle [Rags - 1980]041 - Exuma : Seance In The Sixth Fret [Exuma - 1970 - Bahamas/NY]042 - Nurse With Wound : Black Teeth [Huffin' Rag Blues - 2008]043 - Wiseblood : Hey Bop A Ree Bop [PTTM - 1991 - NY]044 - The Church Universal and Triumphant : Invocation for judgement against and destruction of rock music [The Sounds of American Doomsday Cults - 1984 - US]045 - Snog : The New Cocksucker Blues [Babes In Consumerland - 2013 - Australia]046 - Black Flag : Family Man [Family Man - 1984 - US]047 - Banta : Banta Trance Speech 1948 [Okkulte Stimmen - Mediale Musik: Recordings Of Unseen Intelligences 1905-2007 - Ubuweb 2016 - Germany]048 - Amanda Lear : It's a Better Life [Diamonds For Breakfast - 1980 - Italia]049 - Diana Ross : No One Gets The Prize [The Boss - 1979 - US]050 - Adriano Celentano : Happy To Be Dancing With You [Geppo Il Folle - 1978 - Italia/Milano]051 - Defunkt : We All Dance Togheter [Defunkt - 1980 - NY]052 - Earth, Wind and Fire : Moment Of Truth [Earth, Wind and Fire - 1971]053 - Prince : Family Name [The Rainbow Children - Parsley Park 2001 - US]054 - James Chance & The Contortions : Dish It Out [No New York - 1978 - NY]055 - The Pop Group : We Are All Prostitutes [We Are All Prostitutes - Rough Trade 1979 - London]056 - Rip Rig & Panic : It's Always Tit For Tac You Foolish Brats [Storm The Reality Asylum - Virgin 1982 - London]057 - Kim Fowley Jr. : Fred Loves Betty [Son of Frankenstein - ]058 - Geza X and The Mommymen : We Need More Power [You Goddam Kids! - 2002 - LA]059 - Germs : What We Do Is Secret [G - 1980 - LA]060 - Bad Brains : Pay To Cum [Bad Brains - 1982 - NY]061 - King Krimson : Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With [The Power To Believe - 2003 - London]062 - Butthole Surfers : The Lord Is A Monkey [Electriclarryland - 1996 - Seattle]063 - Frank Zappa : I'm So Cute [Sheik Yerbouti - 1979 - US]064 - Captain Beefheart : Floppy Boot Stomp [Bat Chain Puller - 1976 - US]065 - Pere Ubu : Rhapsody in Pink [The Art of Walking - 1980 - NY]066 - Snakefinger : The Picture Makers vs. Children Of The Sea [Greener Postures - Ralph Rec. 1980 - SF]067 - Superspirit : We Belong To The Cosmos [Permission To Come Aboard - Tummy Touch 2009 - NY]068 - Rip Rig & Panic : Leave Your Spittle In The Pot [Storm The Reality Asylum - Virgin 1982 - London]069 - David Thrussell : Turn Muzak On It's Head [The Voices of Reason - 2001 - Australia]070 - Robert Ashley : The Bar (side B) [Perfect Lives (The Bar) - Lovely Music 1980 - NY]071 - Harry Hoogstraten : The Do-Dah [K7 Baobab Magazine issue #1 - 1978 - Italia/ ]072 - The Residents : The Moles Are Coming [Intermission - Ralph Rec. 1981 - SF]073 - Akira Mitake : Can't Touch, Even Watch [Out Of Reach - 1983 - Tokyo]074 - Eddy Detroit : Seed of The Oyster [Jungle Captive - 1997]075 - Roger Ruskin Spear : Drop Out [Trouser Freak - 1972]076 - Kim Fowley : Bubble Gum [Bubble Gum - 1967 - US]077 - Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper : This Land Is For Everyone [ - US]078 - Violent Femmes : I'm Not Done [We Can Do Anything - 2016 - US]079 - Tom Waits : Step Right Up [Small Change - 1976 - US]080 - Damon : The Road of Life [Song of A Gypsy - 2009]081 - Charles Manson : Spaceman [Commemoration - 1995 - US]082 - Danielle Dax : When I Was Young [Dark Adapted Eye - 1988 - NL]083 - Edith Piaf : Non, Je Ne Rgrette Rien [Je Ne Rgrette Rien - 2011 - France]084 - Fabrizio De Andrè : Il Gorilla [Volume 3 - 1970 - Genova]085 - Donna salentina : E Mujerima Pe La Musica Pazza Pazza [Musiche Tradizionali del Salento - - Salento/Italia]086 - Carrettiere del Salento : Canto del Carrettiere [Musiche Tradizionali del Salento - - Salento/Italia]087 - Men's Group From Vlore : What Have Ianina's Eyes Seen ? [Albanie: Vocal And Instrumental Polyphony - 1988 - Albania]088 - Francois Muduya : Chant Avec Cithare [Burundi : Musiques Traditionnelles Recorded by Michel Vuylsteke - 1970 - Burundi]089 - Diamanda Galas : I Put A Spell On You [ - Ellakis]090 - Nurse With Wound : Devil Is This The Night [Dark Fat - 2016 - US]091 - X-TG feat. Antony : Janitor of Lunacy [Desertshore / The Final Report - 2012 - London]092 - Lindsay Cooper : The Chartist Anthem [Rags - 1980]093 - Leonard Cohen : First We Take Manhattan [I'm Your Man - 1988 - Canada]094 - Fred Frith : Too Much Too Little [Cheap At Half The Price - Reccomended Rec 1983]095 - Brion Gysin : From Here To Go [10%: File Under Burroughs - 1996 - NY]096 - Queen : Flash [Flash Gordon OST - - London]097 - Art Bears : Freedom [The World As It Is Today - Reccomended Rec 1981]098 - Robert Wyatt : At Last I Am Free [Wanna Buy A Bridge? - Rough Trade 1980 - UK]099 - Rufus Zuphall : I'm On My Way [Phallobst - 1971 - Germany]100 - Kingdom Come Arthur Brown : Simple Man [Galactic Zoo Dossier - 1971 - US]101 - Edith Perrin : When I Die [1941 - somewhere]

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what are the best blockchain books

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Finding (and fixing) every team’s most painful draft regrets

If you’ve been on Twitter for a decade or so like I have, you’ve seen roughly five or maybe even six good tweets. The all-time best hockey tweet, we can all agree, is this one. But not far behind is this beauty from the 2015 entry draft, which still resurfaces from time to time:

Oh shit, Boston could get Barzal, Connor, and Kylington here

— Rhys Jessop (@Thats_Offside) June 27, 2015

The Bruins held three straight picks in the first round that year, and they could indeed have used those picks to nab Mathew Barzal and Kyle Connor. (And, uh, Oliver Kylington, but let’s skip that part.) Instead, they picked Jakub Zboril, Jake Debrusk and Zachary Senyshyn. Let’s be charitable and say they went 1-for-3.

If you’re a Boston fan, you may be haunted by visions of Barzal and Connor slotted into today’s Bruins lineup, and thoughts of what might have been. But that’s hardly unusual. In fact, every team has had a draft like the 2015 Bruins, where you wish you could go back and will your team to make different picks.

So today, let’s do that. We’re all scouting geniuses with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, so let’s pretend we’re time traveling hockey fans from the year 2018 who can go back and visit the draft table of each NHL team for one year and convince the GM to change three picks. Which year would you go back to for your favorite team? Or put differently, how painful was your team’s worst missed opportunity?

Two important ground rules here, and I’m even going to break out the bolded text to make sure everyone sees them before they go yell at me in the comments. (They will not.)

– We can only convince teams to take guys who are going to be chosen relatively close to that team’s actual pick. Otherwise, there’s not much fun here – every team wishes they’d taken Dominik Hasek in 1983 or Pavel Datsyuk in 1998, but reading that 30 times wouldn’t be all that interesting. So let’s pretend that no GM is going to listen to a time traveler telling him to reach too far, which we’ll define as more than five picks in the top 10, or more than 10 picks anywhere else.

– In a further attempt to avoid going overboard on the Datsyuk-type picks, only one team can change their pick to any given player. In other worse, no player can be redrafted more than once. And to ratchet up the pain, we’ll give first dibs to whichever team was closest to where that guy was ultimately picked.

With those caveats in mind, let’s find the most painful draft possible for all 30 teams that have been around long enough to know they screwed up. (Sorry, Vegas, you’ll have to sit this one out. Check back in a few years.) For teams that have relocated, we’ll count the previous version too, since some of those players would have made the move to the new market.

This is going to get long, so we recommend CTRL+F’ing your favorite team, crying for a little bit, and then circling back to point and laugh at everyone else. Let’s do this.

Anaheim Ducks: 2007

They could have had: #22 Max Pacioretty, #43 P.K. Subban and #129 Jamie Benn

Instead they picked: #19 Logan MacMillan, #42 Eric Tangradi and #121 Mattias Modig

The Ducks are a nice place to start – thank you, alphabetical order! – because they do a good job of demonstrating the concept we’re going for here. Three all-stars, including an Art Ross and a Norris winner, there for the taking. Instead, the Ducks grabbed two forwards who combined for a total of five NHL goals and a goaltender who never made the NHL. Was the entire Ducks’ front office drunk in 2007? [Remembers how that year’s playoffs went.] Yeah, they were probably drunk.

Arizona Coyotes: 2015

They could have had: #4 Mitch Marner, #35 Sebastian Aho and #37 Brandon Carlo

Instead they picked: #3 Dylan Strome, #30 Nick Merkley and #32 Christian Fischer

It’s a little ironic that it only takes us two teams to get to the 2015 draft that inspired this post. And for extra fun, we’re even stealing one of Boston’s picks in the process.

It’s admittedly a little risky to go back just three years, since 2015 is recent enough that we can’t say for sure how the draft will turn out. Maybe Strome reaches his potential in Chicago, Merkley still makes it and Fischer goes from solid young depth to difference maker. But for right now, the Coyotes with Aho, Carlo and Marner – or Ivan Provorov or Zach Werenski for that matter – would look pretty scary.

Boston Bruins: 1981

They could have had: #15 Al MacInnis, #40 Chris Chelios and #107 Gerard Gallant

Instead they picked: #14 Normand Leveille, #35 Luc Dufour and #98 Joe Mantione

It’s tempting to stay true to the source material and just go with 2015 for the Bruins, maybe swapping in somebody like Thomas Chabot or Brock Boeser for Kylington. But while Barzal and friends are very good young players, they’ve got a long way to go to be first-ballot Hall of Famers like Chelios and MacInnis.

Gallant is the third wheel here, and you could go with somebody like Tom Kurvers or Greg Stefan instead if you wanted, but the key point is that the Bruins could have built their 1980s blueline around Chelios, MacInnis and Ray Bourque. (And if you want to argue that already having Bourque means they wouldn’t have bothered drafting defensemen, remember that they spent the first overall pick in 1982 on Gord Kluzak.)

Buffalo Sabres: 1977

They could have had: #15 Mike Bossy, #33 John Tonelli and #73 Jim Korn

Instead they picked: #14 Ric Seiling, #32 Ron Areshenkoff and #68 Bill Stewart

It’s the context that makes this one sting. Back in 1977, the Sabres and Islanders were both recent expansion teams that had already built contenders. The Sabres had put up three straight 100-point seasons, while the Islanders had just had their second. Both teams felt like they were on the verge of a breakthrough, as if they were just a player or two away from something special. Then the Sabres let Bossy and Tonelli slip through their fingers in favor of two guys who played the same positions, and the final pieces of an eventual Islanders dynasty fell into place.

Korn’s basically an afterthought here; the real question is whether flipping these picks means the Sabres and Islanders flip 1980s destinies too.

Calgary Flames: 1990

They could have had: #19 Keith Tkachuk, #34 Doug Weight and #85 Sergei Zubov

Instead they picked: #11 Trevor Kidd, #32 Vesa Viitakoski and #83 Paul Kruse

For reasons I can’t quite figure out, the Flames are one of the hardest team to find a really regrettable draft for. It’s not that they don’t make bad picks – everyone does – but they seem to spread them out, or at least let a team or two get in between them and their worst misses.

So we’ll cheat just a little by going with 1990 here. The three players they miss are all top-tier stars, and despite having a dozen picks the only real NHLers they found were Kruse and Kidd. But as Flames fans know, this draft lives in infamy because the Flames traded up with New Jersey from #20 to #11 to get Kidd, only to see the Devils use that #20 pick on the draft’s second highest-rated goaltender … Martin Brodeur. Whoops. Even on the draft floor, sometimes the best moves are the ones you don’t make.

Carolina Hurricanes/Hartford Whalers: 1989

They could have had: #53 Nicklas Lidstrom, #74 Sergei Fedorov and #221 Vladimir Konstantinov

Instead they picked: #52 Blair Atcheynum, #73 Jim McKenzie and #220 John Battice

This one almost feels unfair, as the Red Wings have quite possibly the greatest draft in the history of the NHL with the Whalers picking right in front of them the whole way along. Hartford even misses out on a 1,000-game man in #116 Dallas Drake in favor of #115 Jerome Bechard. But at least #136 Scott Daniels ended up being a marginally better pick than #137 Scott Zygulski. Eat that, Detroit!

Chicago Blackhawks: 2004

They could have had: #5 Blake Wheeler, #63 David Krejci and #258 Pekka Rinne

Instead they picked: #3 Cam Barker, #54 Jakub Sindel and #256 Matthew Ford

Chicago fans probably aren’t surprised to see the Cam Barker pick show up here in some form. Missing on Krejci and Rinne hurts too, as does passing up guys like Ryan Callahan and Andrej Sekera. The good news is that the Hawks did find some important depth pieces for their future dynasty in Dave Bolland and Bryan Bickell. But as for the franchise-defining draft finds, those would have to wait a couple of years.

Colorado Avalanche/Quebec Nordiques: 1988

They could have had: #8 Jeremy Roenick, #10 Teemu Selanne and either #67 Mark Recchi or #70 Rob Blake

Instead they picked: #3 Curtis Leschyshyn, #5 Daniel Dore and #66 Darren Kimble

The Nordiques whiffed so badly that I have to put Alexander Mogilny in the honorable mentions. He went with the 89th pick, two spots after the Nordiques took Stephane Venne.

The league felt so sorry for Quebec after this draft that they let them have the first overall pick in each of the next three years.

>> Read the full post at The Athletic

from All About Sports http://www.downgoesbrown.com/2018/11/finding-and-fixing-every-teams-most.html

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Bradley Wright-Phillips: Winner of Red Bulls-Atlanta will win MLS Cup

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HARRISON, N.J.— The series we’ve been waiting for is nearly upon us.

After taking the Supporters’ Shield race to Decision Day with all-time point totals, Atlanta United and the New York Red Bulls will meet in the Eastern Conference Championship. What should we expect?

“Just a heavyweight clash,” Bradley Wright-Phillips said after the Red Bulls’ 3-0 win over Columbus Crew SC. “I do think whoever wins that game will win MLS Cup.”

Luis Robles, like Wright-Phillips, borrowed parallels from boxing to forecast the matchup.

“I think it’s the series MLS wanted,” Robles said. “It’s going to be track meet. That said, we have to be strategic. There’ll be times, like in a heavyweight fight, we’re going to take a blow. We have to be able to weather that, receive it, be very cautious and meticulous about when we strike back.”

The Red Bulls have done a great job of knowing when to strike and when to be reserved against Atlanta, better than any other club in the league thus far. Atlanta have yet to beat the Red Bulls in their two-year existence as a club, losing three of the four matches they’ve played, the most recent of which at the end of September with the Shield on the line. Wright-Phillips was suspended due to yellow card accumulation while Tyler Adams missed out due to injury and New York still got the job done.

Alex Muyl reckons the head-to-head record is a fact not soon forgotten in Atlanta.

“I think naturally it’s going to be on their minds, it’ll be a talking point for them that we were able to beat them in the regular season and end up winning the Supporters’ Shield,” Alex Muyl said. “For us, it’ll be about resetting and taking it for what it is. The playoffs are a different animal. We think we’re set up to do well but it’s going to come down to performances.”

Both the Red Bulls and Atlanta were convincing in progressing through the Conference Semifinals. ATL earned a professional, hard-fought win at Yankee Stadium in Leg 1 against NYCFC before taking care of business at Mercedes-Benz Stadium with minimal fuss. The Red Bulls, meanwhile, calmly overturned a 1-0 first leg deficit into a 3-1 aggregate win with another strong performance at Red Bull Arena.

“Of course we do (look forward to playing them),” Daniel Royer said. “They’re a great team, they have individual class and played a great season so far. But we also have good memories playing against them this season, we just want to continue where we left off.”

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Methanol-Fueled Cars Could Drive Us Toward an Emissionless Future

Icelandic firm Carbon Recycling International is turning industrial pollution into a low-carbon fuel for cars, trucks, and ships

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Road to Methanol: Iceland’s Carbon Recycling International has pioneered a way to produce methanol fuel using renewable energy and waste CO 2. A nearby geothermal power station supplies CO 2 and electricity to the methanol plant and mineral-rich water to the famous Blue Lagoon spa [above].

Just off a two-lane highway that winds through the black volcanic rock fields of southwest Iceland sits a nondescript industrial plant. Its multistoried network of pipes and tubes reveal little about what goes on there. Each year hundreds of thousands of tourists pass right by, on their way to visit the strange and beautiful Blue Lagoon, an outdoor spa whose steaming milky blue water flows directly from the nearby Svartsengi geothermal power station. If tourists notice the plant at all, it’s maybe to wonder why it’s here.

As it happens, this plant also depends on the Svartsengi facility, not for its silica-infused water but for its carbon dioxide. And what’s going on inside the plant has the potential to dramatically decarbonize the transportation sector. The plant belongs to Carbon Recycling International (CRI), whose engineers have developed a novel method of using renewable energy to produce methanol fuel from waste streams of CO2 and electrolyzed water. Methanol generated this way, CRI is betting, could have a real impact on climate change.

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Expansion Plans: Carbon Recycling International’s methanol plant, in Iceland, produces 5 million liters of fuel a year. The company plans to build plants 10 times as large in China by leveraging its partnership with the carmaker Geely, which has been investing in methanol cars.

Over the past decade, CRI engineers have been refining and vetting their process at the plant, which is named for the late Nobel Prize–winning chemist George A. Olah. A pipeline carries about 5,500 metric tons of CO2 per year from Svartsengi, which also supplies the electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen and CO2 are then combined to form water-laden methanol, which is distilled into pure methanol. Opened in 2012, the plant now produces 4,000 metric tons, or 5 million liters, a year. Some of the fuel, which CRI has dubbed Vulcanol, is used to operate a test fleet of methanol-burning sedans built by the Chinese car giant Geely Auto Group. The carmaker’s founder, billionaire Li Shufu, has been pushing methanol transportation in his country. Geely has a factory in Shanxi province that can produce up to 100,000 methanol cars a year and is constructing another factory in Guizhou province.

Of course, in an ideal low-carbon world, the roads would be filled not with methanol cars but with electric vehicles charged by renewable energy. We’re still well short of that goal, however. Today, EVs make up a tiny fraction of cars in every country where they’re sold. Even under the most optimistic assumptions, it may be midcentury before a majority of cars on the road are all-electric.

In the meantime, methanol is among the most promising alternatives for significantly shrinking our cars’ carbon footprint. If you power a methanol plant with a renewable energy source and capture the CO2 coming from the exhaust of, say, a steel plant, you can halve the total carbon being released into the atmosphere. So even though burning methanol in a car’s internal combustion engine does release CO2, along with some water vapor, you’re first capturing CO2 from the steel plant. That is, you’re basically recycling the carbon and extracting some useful work before it gets released. In contrast to carbon capture and storage, which aims to permanently sequester CO2 deep underground, this type of cycle is known as “carbon capture and utilization.”

“Many people are convinced that EVs will solve our climate problem,” says G.K. Surya Prakash, a professor of chemistry at the University of Southern California and a longtime collaborator of Olah’s. “But the technology isn’t there yet, the batteries aren’t there yet. And many third-world countries don’t have enough electricity even for basic needs, so what’s all this talk about EVs?” Methanol, by contrast, is doable right now, he says. The simple alcohol can be burned in an internal combustion engine, and it can be stored, transported, and distributed using the same basic infrastructure that’s now used for gasoline and diesel.

“That’s the beauty of methanol,” says Prakash. “You don’t have to build an entirely new infrastructure from scratch.”

If the idea of methanol cars sounds vaguely familiar, that may be because it’s not new. Back in the 1980s, such vehicles were heavily promoted by the government of California, as a way to address the state’s air pollution as well as its dependence on foreign oil. Ford Motor Co. spearheaded the development of a flex-fuel car, which could burn gasoline as well as alternative fuels like methanol. California’s fleet of methanol vehicles eventually reached 15,000. But falling oil prices and the U.S. corn lobby’s push for ethanol ultimately killed the methanol car.

This time around is different, says Paul Wuebben. He was one of the leaders of California’s methanol experiment and now serves as CRI’s senior director of fuel applications. (Wuebben’s colleagues call him “Mr. Methanol,” a nickname that makes him both slightly embarrassed and rather proud.) “Methanol is coming back strongly,” he says.

Photos: Jeibmann Photographik/Torpedo Motor

Deep Purple: At the Beijing Motor Show in April, the Chinese car startup AIWays unveiled a methanol fuel cell sports car [top] designed by Germany auto engineer Roland Gumpert. The fuel cell system [above] was supplied by SerEnergy. The car boasts a top speed of 300 kilometers per hour and an 0-to-100 km/h acceleration of about 2.5 seconds.

The European Union, India, and Israel are all investing in methanol transportation, Wuebben notes. And in China, methanol accounts for 8 percent of transportation fuel, and the market research firm IHS Markit is projecting demand to grow by 7 percent per year. The availability of methanol-gasoline blends there ranges from 5 percent methanol (M5) to 100 percent (M100). While most of China’s methanol is produced from coal or using coal power, Geely’s Li recently called for the creation of a “liquid sunshine economy,” in which the fuel’s production would be solar powered. And in April, the Chinese car startup AIWays, working with the German car engineer Roland Gumpert and the Danish fuel cell company SerEnergy, unveiled a methanol fuel cell sports car at the Beijing Motor Show.

And Iceland’s CRI is riding the methanol wave. At the company’s headquarters in Kópavogur, just outside Reykjavík, Benedikt Stefánsson, the business development director, says it’s been quite a ride. CRI was founded by two Icelanders and two Americans in 2006, the same year that Olah, Prakash, and Alain Goeppert published Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy (Wiley), laying out a grand vision for weaning the world from its habit of consuming some 97 million barrels of oil a day. The following year, CRI opened a small pilot plant. But the global financial crisis of 2008–2009 hit Iceland particularly hard, and investment funding dried up. CRI cobbled together enough money from local investors and family members to complete the Olah plant in 2012. Subsequent investments from Canadian methanol producer Methenex and Geely allowed the company to expand the plant and start developing projects outside Iceland.

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Current and planned projects have an annual capacity equal to just 0.3 percent of annual emissions from stationary sources.

Stefánsson says the right way to view a methanol-fueled car is as a replacement for a traditional gasoline- or diesel-powered car, for the vast majority of consumers who aren’t ready to make the leap to a fully electric car. In Iceland, he notes, government incentives favoring EVs have led to a recent uptick in battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. Nevertheless, he says, Iceland’s cold climate exacerbates the vehicles’ already limited electric range. So owners of hybrids still find themselves pulling up to the pump regularly.

Of course, even if methanol fuel is similar to gasoline in many respects, it’s not exactly the same. For starters, methanol’s energy content is about half that of gasoline, so an M100 car has to be filled up twice as often. “Methanol is a unique product, so you have to handle it in parallel with gasoline,” says Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. He’s highly skeptical that methanol cars will ever expand beyond their current niche.

“The auto industry is investing tens of billions of dollars in electric drive technology,” Sperling says. “They don’t need or want another product.”

For different reasons, Edward S. Rubin, a professor of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, also doubts methanol’s prospects. In a recent paper, he and several collaborators examined the extent to which converting CO2 to fuels—as CRI is doing—could mitigate climate change. Their conclusion: “While CCU [carbon capture and utilization] does have the potential to mitigate some CO2 emissions (provided that a continuous supply of carbon-free electricity is available), an alternative system employing CCS [carbon capture and storage] together with the same carbon-free electricity is a far more effective mitigation option.”

“If your chief goal is to solve the climate problem, methanol isn’t the best way to do it,” Rubin says. Climate models suggest that to stave off the worst effects of a changing climate, the electricity grid and other industrial sectors need to be deeply decarbonized by midcentury, he says. CCU may be more attractive than CCS because you may be able to make money doing it, he notes, but it also prolongs the time it will take to bring down greenhouse gas emissions to the levels needed to avoid dangerous impacts. “The timescale of climate-change mitigation means we really can’t afford to wait.”

Stefánsson agrees with this sense of urgency but argues that any scheme to mitigate climate change should include liquid fuels from CO2. “In any scenario, we need rapidly increasing investment in carbon capture,” he says. “But CCS has zero impact on the use of fossil fuels in transport. It is also a perpetual cost, which is why adoption has been so slow.” And there’s still no good near-term technology for electrifying long-distance and heavy-goods transport or shipping or aviation, he adds.

“Right now, the world is still flush with fossil fuel resources,” says USC’s Prakash. Absent a strong system of rewards and penalties that discourages the use of those resources, people will use them. Methanol offers a bridge from our highly carbonated present to a low-carbon future, in which electricity comes from renewables or nuclear and cars are electric. In the meantime, Prakash says, methanol can help. Rather than wastefully flaring natural gas in the Bakken Formation, for instance, why not place a methanol plant there and produce fuel? Rather than curtailing wind and solar when the power grid can’t absorb their output, why not use the excess for methanol?

“Methanol gives us a way to store not just kilowatt- or megawatt-hours of power but gigawatt-hours,” Prakash says. “It could be a game changer.”

This article appears in the June 2018 print issue as “Turning Pollution Into Fuel.”

Methanol-Fueled Cars Could Drive Us Toward an Emissionless Future syndicated from https://jiohowweb.blogspot.com

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